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Helping a mate cut down a nuisance tree shortly and my amateur go at I. D ing it I think it may be a cassia Abbreviatia about 8m tall. It has a forked trunk one of which is about 60cm dia and relatively straight for about 2 metres . I see that that particular tree has a mass of 896kg per m3. If it i...

When I said lowered into the oil bath i really should have said 'plunged' into it so the contractions caused by the molecular structure of the heated blade returning to a more normal unstressed state are uniformly acted on by the cooling process.Vegetable oil is okay for quenching as you say.

Hope you dont mind a small piece of advice when tempering or annealing your own blades. It's better to use a 'clean oil' rather than used sump oil as sump oil is full of impurities that can permeate the molecular structure of the blade and affect it, and when quenching a blade lower it point first i...

I have had bows with a value of over $300 go through without a worry. I think the limit is way up there, like $500 or $1000 but I could be entirely wrong.It seems to be a hodge podge with their postal service. I will see what happens with the long bow I have on order.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Or many ways to skin a cat. Would make great practice.

No wonder he had the nickname 'mad jack' He was either hugely brave , or completely off his rocker.

It appears that in the US there are different conditions depending on where one lives, or at least how lenient the postal service is in that area. I've had smaller lighter compound bows cost more than longer heavier ones. Suppose which coast its coming from might also be a factor. After reading othe...

Fifty people can do great work in educating Joe Public about ethical bow hunting and archery in general and one moron can blow that into the weeds in seconds. There is a lunatic greenie group called PETA which some people may not be aware of and they are funded by huge petro chemical dollars. Althou...

I will be waiting anxiously to see what happens when the unfinished bow I 've ordered is shipped. I've asked 3 times if the shipping cost was right and received an affirmative response each time . The amount quoted was $39.99 US and that is a one piece bow of 72''! Bet I'll get a request for additio...

Interesting. I have been corresponding with several bow makers 'bout either staves or unfinished long bows in full length. Some said they wouldnt do it because of cost involved , some quoted up to $150 US. This one maker has a price of $39.99 for shipment to Australia. I have quizzed him several tim...

Hi Steve. Thanks for your reply, mate. Have been reading extensively on this and other sites re build alongs etc, and have begun assembling my own gear. I have partly completed a hot box from some scrap ply i had and will be making a form later to suit a relexed bamboo lam. long bow. Need to obtain ...

Thanks, Jeff, kinda thought that. Will check out any cabinet makers in vicinity for off cuts of various timbers.May have some osage logs to play with later.

How would silky oak go as riser material? And what areas [ as in salvage yards etc., in general]are good sources for timber for same when one is only looking for small sections at a time?

Hi there Jeff, Looking at making a bamboo / glass composite. Got on to glass lam supplier but unsure about glass lam. thickness. Hoping to make one similiar to the one in your excellent post on making a boo bow.Also would like to know an outlet for the layflat hose. How much use could one get out of...

I'll put my hand up if I may!

I will answer my own question since I 've taken the time to actually look through some of the threads. There is a wealth of info here if one takes the time to dig it up . Great, keep up the great work.Some truly beautiful bows on here as well, quite a few from makers I am aware of but plenty I dont ...

Hope this doesnt come up twice as the first attempt disappeared. In short been around archery for best part of 30 years mainly with compounds,but did flirt with stick bows eons ago.Even tried making my own self bow from spotted gum backed with rawhide.Read all volumes of Bowyers bible cover to cover...